With less than one week until the scheduled start of the 2020 MLB season a serious complication has emerged for the Toronto Blue Jays, the only team not based in the Unite States. This afternoon Canadian Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced that MLB’s regular season would require repeated border crossings between the US and Canada that would jeopardize the health of Canadian citizens, according to the Associated Press:
“Unlike preseason training, regular season games would require repeated cross-border travel of Blue Jays players and staff, as well as opponent teams into and out of Canada.